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the ear and get them home. >> the gunshots that, sparked a night of violence in the midwest. >> plus, tour bus collide. the malfunctioning that caused a captain to lose control. >> complete new england news coverage starts right now. this is fox 25 morning news. and it was a rock night weather wise. thanks for waking fox 25 morning news i'm jason law. >> catherine: and i'm catherine parrotta. storms last night. more could be on the way. jason brewer is tracking more temps. >> jason brewer: let's talk about that. heat advisories posted for here in new england. the bright pink an excessive heat warning starts at 11:00 a.m. through 7:00 today. that means heat index readings up to 107. interior plymouth county a big concern this afternoon.
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with a heat index of 100 degrees. and we begin to be concerned about showers and storms. flooding threats and damaging inwind concerns are back with us today. especially with the heat we're going to have. between 10:00 and 1:00 watch for storms to bubble up. eastward through southern new hampshire possibly even toward the north shore and then we'll watch into the ear a few storms may start to organize. especially from where the sea breeze organize from the atlantic here. we'll keep an eye later on this evening. back more with the heat index in your neighborhood and the worse of it coming up. >> catherine: last night, storms knocked out power to thousands of people. >> jason: stephanie coueignoux went to arlington where crews are working to get the lights back on this morning. >> reporter: the reason why a lot of people here in arlington
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take a look. you can see that one of these transformers, the line is down here, and the fire department was telling me that lightning struck this transformer, causing all of this damage and causing all of these power outages. you can also see the utility crews have put these do not cross tapes around several of these areas just because obviously it is a safety concern. earlier i spoke with the eversource crew that was here and they to to return back to this area to fix these downed transformers. it's going to take several hours. a lot of people in arlington waking up this morning. take a look. just how dark it is. these cars coming down the street really the only source of light. as more and more people wake up, more people will realize they don't have power and then call the fire department. a lot of activity in arlington. that's not the only area that's waking up to storm damage.
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power outages there and flooding there. and also reports of a tree down on a car. that's where we're headed next. and we'll have a live report from quincy. for now, from arlington, i'm stephanie coueignoux fox 25 news. >> catherine: dangerously high temperatures expected today and threat of severe storms later this afternoon now is the time to download fox 25 weather app. you can track the temperatures where you are and where you're going to plan your day. you can get live radar as the storms start popping it's free for apple and android devices. >> jason: we're following breaking news this morning, out of wisconsin. chaos as angry crowds took to the streets of milwaukee hours after a police officer shot and killed an armed man during a foot chase. in violence that started over the evening and stretched past midnight. one police car was smashed. another torched. at least four businesses also set on fire. one of those buildings was a gas station.
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battling that fire because of gunfire nearby. the city's mayor addressed the violence in an early morning news conference, imploring parents to check on their kids. >> a mother who is watching this right now and your young son or daughter is not home and you think they're in this area, get them home right now. >> jason: so far we know police have arrested at least three people during these protests. police say the shooting happened yesterday afternoon when a suspect armed with a the incident now being investigated by the state. also there's a man hunt in georgia this morning after a police officer was killed out of make con. he was shot to death last night after responding to a call about a suspicious person. this happened around 9:30 last night. the suspect has not been identified and still at large this morning. >> catherine: and this morning, a woman in critical condition after being hit bit a car in south boston. the woman who is in her 20s in a
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center with life-threatening injuries. the driver stopped at the scene and was questioned last night. no word on if he's facing any charges this morning. >> jason: new this morning, the coast guard rescued six people after their boat sank in boston harbor. the coast guard rescue boat found the people in the water near a sinking boat between castle island and thompson island in dorchester bay. this videos shows them back on shore being tended to b after being rescued. what caused this are boat to sink is still under investigation this morning. >> catherine: this is video smoke from a tour boat billowing in the air in boston harbor. this came after the boat regency collided with several others. told us the vessel experienced unexpected control failure while docking in the wharf. causing the captain to lose control. no one on board any of the boats
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have some broken windows. >> thank god nobody was world. but things are still concerning, whether it's safe to ride a boat or not. >> catherine: the two boats struck are rookie and aurora are still to be inspected. >> jason: residents were trying to save this man, performing cpr by the time e.m.s. showed up. the man taken to the hos this picture from the scene from the brockton enterprise shows the pool area closed off after that drowning. authorities haven't said this was a drowning with some kind of medical episode. >> catherine: tonight the community in quincy will come together for a three mile run to honor the life of vanessa marcotte. marcotte murdered during a jog one week ago today. they asked people to bring
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today. meantime, investigators combing through nearly 600 tips to find her killer. >> reporter: 27-year-old vanessa marcotte will be laid to rest in westminster tuesday. it's been a week since the girl went out for a jog and never came home. police focusing on the hours between 1:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon and brooks station road during that time. that's when she was last seen jogging that afternoon. we saw the area where police found the body. we learned from fought her killer and now asking the public to look out for anyone with bruises, cuts, or any other injuries similar to a struggle. police did investigate one incident after wachusett mountain employees called them about a couple that showed up and had bruises on his body. that couple was involved in an accident that day and they refused treatment. the police chief says this has nothing to do with marcotte's murder.
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>> catherine: no details insignificant. they're asking for the public's helpful they've set up a tip line with anyone with information about the death. this is the number that you call right there on your scene and all tips are anonymous. >> i'll tell you honestily, i'm not running against crooked hillary clinton. i'm running against the crooked media. >> jason: this weekend, donald trump c by choosing to make a campaign stop in connecticut last night. the state has not gone republican for president since george h.w. bush back in 1988. here's why the gop brassed concern. the republican nominee has work to do in three battle ground states. according to a wall street journal poll out today, trump trails hillary clinton in iowa, ohio, and pennsylvania. hoping to bolster the big lead
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kaine stopped in new hampshire this weekend. kaine waste nod time taking jabs at donald trump and his vision of america. >> we are too great a nation to believe donald trump. we just can't do it. we can't do it. [cheers and applause] and every week, every week, he gives us a new reason not to believe him. >> reporter: democratic vice-presidential nominee tim in new hampshire saturday afternoon. the virginia senator didn't focus solely on trump but hillary clinton's economic plan, the largest investment in job creation since the second world war. >> for hillary clinton, the most important thing we need to do is to build an economy that not only grows but an economy where the growth is shared and where everybody has a ladder that they can climb to achieve what their
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investors analyzed the plan and claims it will lead to big time growth. >> if her plan is implemented, the economy will grow by 10 million jobs in the first term of hillary clinton. and we'll be in a significant recovery. >> jason: kerry kavanaugh reporting this morning. clinton proposed 100 day job planning, investing in infrastructure and american manufacturing as well as cutting taxes and red tape. has the claims of a hacker who claimed the latest d.n.c. e-mail leak. goosipher is claiming responsibility. one of the democrats who had her private phone number and e-mail leaked. she's now been getting obscene and sick messages. urged her colleagues not to let their kids near their phone and she's already changed her phone number.
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coming up, the incredible rescue with a car filled with water and slipped under the surface. >> jason: plus a cat snatched and dragged aby by a coyote, the cat's owner watched unable to save her beloved pet. >> you know, i was a nurse for years and i saw a lot of horrible things in the e.r. but this was something different. >> jason: next, the reason more and more coyotes may your neighborhood.
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>> jason brewer: all right. right now, i'm watching our forecast and it is brutal. here's:0 i'm just going to zoom in to a few neighborhoods, these areas in plymouth county in bridgewater and east bridgewater. 106 is what you're going to the be feeling like. you're under an excessive heat warning. be extra careful this afternoon. also a report of storms that straight ahead. >> jason: this morning, an 81-year-old woman and her husband are heart broken after watching a coyote watching their cat dragged off into the woods
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fox 25, jim morelli state officials don't necessarily agree with the coyotes being out due to the drought. >> reporter: this past weekend, loretta lynn's cats let her cats both 16-year-old out in the yard. then she heard a scream. >> >> the noise was terrible, blood curdling. >> reporter: it came from one of her cats, that was moments being killed by a coyote. >> i was a n the o. are. this is something different. this is horrible. >> reporter: residents of loretta's neighborhood in ashland say this year, more than any years they can remember, coyotes seem to go coming out ten-day forecast woodwork. but state biologist, says high coy quoted tee activity is normal. >> the young are actually learning how to hunt. >> reporter: drought conditions have been known to push coyotes
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that happened in california. >> drought can certainly cause wildlife to be stressed and be looking for available water resources wherever they are. >> reporter: but the drought here is nothing like the drought in california state officials say. and food is plentiful. >> what we do is a lot more of the small animals, especially this year. >> reporter: despite having cats for 16 years, the scanlons have no photographs of their pets. the last picture loretta has is one she never wanted to see. and that was it. he was gone. just gone. >> reporter: although attacks on cats are common by coyotes. attacks on humans are rare. what should you do? make noise, the idea to intimidate the animal and get them off of your territory. in ashland, jim morelli, fox 25 news.
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to make public transportation more friendly for users. here's what the public had a look like, a chance to weigh in, the t will select the winner in september. it will be featured on the website for a year. >> this is a fox 25 storm tracker weather alert. >> jason brewer: all right. everybody. i'm tracking the heat. i'm tracking the storm reports. i can recap them for you here if the storm tracker weather center. i'll show you the highs yesterday. they were lower than anticipated. how hot it got around orange, around 90, that's where storms start to flare up and another round of storms overnight as warm air started to take over again. a lot of rumbling going on. even storm reports. a lot of these wind damage
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flooding reports. worcester county, lots of wind. this storm here in quincy where you just heard stephanie coueignoux is headed in this direction with a tree on cars. and we've got some flooding reports there as well. so we'll be taking a look at those throughout the morning. look at the rain, though, that's the good thing. we have had some good rain fall totals. webster 3 inches. shirley almost that much. and this is over the last 29 hours. so two day totals. leom quarters. and needham and hopkinton checking in about 1 inch of rain so far. our attention back to the heat. a break yesterday. most of us in the 80s. today heading back to the 90s. the humidity will be lower in the cases you could not see the heat alert posted. but still plenty hot.
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excessively hot. plymouth county, away from any cooling affects of the water, watch out. heat index up to 107 there. and then the heat advisory around boston and on up toward the sea coast. there are your high temperatures today. right on back into the middle 90s. remember, friday, upper 90s in boston. it's going to be awfully close today. we'll see that south coast wind taking over and heating up again. and on into the cape cod and the islands. worcester going to make a run at 90 degrees. but there is that threat for some storms coming up into the afternoon. making their way in and cooling some of us off. but, again, most of us getting into the 90s before we can get any cooling affects from the storms. so i'm going to go ahead and advance it right up. so you can get your seven-day forecast. i'm trying to get my show all wind out for you this morning.
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latest information put out there for you so you can get obviously your sunday planned. after about 1:00, i'll be watching out for that threat of storms. and we'll be watching that into the early evening. >> they're going to be moving from the west to the east. we're going to have potentially damaging winds. potential flooding, once again. and then the storms move off shore into the early evening and going to leave us with a nice quiet forecast for monday. tuesday, another round of rain is come up. late tuesday into early and it's out of here. and then late next week, finally a nice run of weather on tap as we head into next weekend. back to you. >> catherine: joe biden's office con you remember ifs the vice-president will visit turkey next month. he'll be the highest level leader visiting the country since the coupe in july.
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social media will lead her to her birth mother 25 years after being left in the hospital. >> i know nothing, no name, nothing about my father. >> jason: the life changing event that made her decide to begin the search. >> catherine: first a fire,
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this morning, police in dartmouth are looking for this boa constrictor. animal control officers taking care of the represent tile right now. if you are the owner or know of anyone police a call. >> jason: we showed you this in a tease. it's unbelievable stuff. called a fire tornado or fire nado for short. near portland, oregon. how can that happen? wild fire can create its own wind and that in in turn can turn into a spinning vortex of flames like you see here. that's terrifying. i've never heard of it, or seen
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>> jason: fire nado. >> catherine: a customer brought a muggy key on a plane. spot him in his shirt. airplane surveillance video, shows the man being screened with that monkey. frontier airlines says nobody gave them a heads up. the monkey was well behaved and showed the proper documentation. obviously no one i never. >> catherine: this has been broke his own guinness world record by rolling a 275 foot cigar. it took 176 pounds of dry tobacco leaves to make. he worked ten days with five astants.
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castro. what do you do with that? >> catherine: chop it up and make it tiny ones so you can smoke it. >> jason brewer: that's what i was thinking. don't put it to waste. future cast, i'm showing you where and when to expect storms today. the dangerous heat is back with us. the latest on heat alert straight ahead. >> reporter: it was a very close call for one driver as introducing dunkin's new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultra-smooth, full-bodied flavor. discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on.
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>> jason: what we went through last night, most of us, lots of lightning. >> catherine: and more storms popping up today. >> jason: it is. so much going on today, but i know one of the big things is the heat today. >> jason brewer: we've already brought the heat and humidity back this morning. basically had a warm front coming through overnight. that's one of the reasons for all of the storms rolling through. the good news is, right now the storms out of here and turning our attention to the heat. bristol county, heat advisories islands and southern new hampshire. our area forecast for you with triple digits heat index readings for you, beginning around noontime and the boston greater area with a temperature of 90 degrees. middle 90s at 3 p.m. feeling like 102. the threat of storms after about 2:00 on into the early evening. here's future cast between 1:00 and 2:00. watch here around keene, parts of western mass. for a few
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east. and down parts of boston and plymouth county. watch in particular right where the sea breeze meeting with the new front to come in. that could be a spot to watch stronger storms. much more coming up. >> catherine: right now, thousands of people across the state are without power from the latest round of storms. >> jason: fox 25 stephanie coueignoux is in quincy this morning where there are reports of wires and trees down. stephanie. >> reporter: yeah take a look. we're here on rights road and you can see the suv barely behind you will after these branches and leaves. take a look. as the strong storms were pushing through around 2:30 this morning, that driver was coming down rice road, when that branch 123457d, sending it crashing down on this car. amazingly, there's not much damage to the suv. the man is actually okay and staying at a friend's house.
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entire road right here. a police officer is here just to make sure people don't try and thrive down this road. they're still waiting for clean up crews. we're getting lots of reports of flooding here in quincy as well as trees down. coming up in 30 minutes, we have video at another scene a very close call there. we'll have another report with that brand new video coming up in 30 minutes. for now, i'm stephanie coueignoux, fox 25 news. >> catherine: now is the time to make sure you have it's a great way to keep track of the severe weather, even if you lose power. our team of meteorologists is constantly updating it with the newest information area by area. it's a free download. >> jason: this morning, we continue to monitor breaking news out of wisconsin. a man shot and killed by police yesterday sparked a night of chaos in milwaukee. look at the scene overnight, angry crowd took to the streets smashing and torching police
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shots rung out in the area, firefighters forced to from battling the fire until it was safe. the state is investigating the shooting that started it all. closer to home, an investigation underway this weekend into shots possibly fired at emergency responders on em-street in manchester new hampshire yesterday. e.m.t.s treating someone when they say shots like the shots went right over their heads. police brought in a k-9 team to investigate, but didn't find any evidence. no one was hurt. >> catherine: in the same city, robbers, stopping them both with a knife. in a garage in manchester before 1:00 a.m. the victim lured to the area by
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the victim fought back and stabbed the men. the they've been identified gym takes son and jonathan vertigan. >> jason: a woman in the hospital after her leg hit by a boat propeller. the coast guard were called out to rescue her yesterday afternoon and the 27-year-old was swimming in the channel to nantucket sound at the time. that incident is still under invest investigation. >> catherine: just one week left in the summer games and the michael phelps ending his career on a high note. he took home in the 4 monday meter med lee yesterday. the 23rd gold medal overall and fifth of this olympics. nice run there. another looking to cement his history, by becoming the first man, the fastest man in
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debut yesterday. he came in first in the 100. he will race tonight. >> jason: so far the united states still leading the pack with 60 medals overall. 24 of those gold. china second with 41. great britain rounds out out at number three. a big windfall, taxes on the wins. and then the value of the medal is also taxed. here's how it breaks down if you are wondering the gold medal winner gets about $25,000. and the gold medal is worth half a million. and bronze is awarded $10,000. but the medals are not taxed because they're not worth that much of this year's athletes
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saturday, a television crews were rolling when a woman was pulled from a car with only moments to spare. fox 25 kerry kavanaugh looks at the heart-wrenching rescue. >> do you have something? >> yeah. >> reporter: a red mazda sinking nose first into the water near baton rouge. with near seconds before the car slips under. three men jump into action all while a news camera rolls. >> break a window. >> she had no way to get out. reality setting in. >> i'm going to die, i'm drowning. >> we're coming. we're coming. we're breaking this window. we're breaking the window. >> reporter: the dire situation gets worse as water continues to poor into the cabin. one man sees the danger and jumps in. then seconds later, then an arm
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car goes completely under. >> get my dog. get my dog. get my dog. here, here. i can't get your dog. >>. >> i got >> near the boat. i'm sorry. >> catherine: wow. >> jason: i watched it this morning. all the way through. first off, when he pulls the woman out, you're like oh my god, he's like no chance going to get the dog and he comes up with the dog and incredible because she was gone, you know, she wasn't going to be able to open those doors. >> it's amazing, she saved that
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>> jason brewer: tracking hefty heat today. at 3:00 today, zoom in to power outages reported overnight in arlington. 101 today. the oppressiveness is with us. and the chance for severe storms timing on that coming up correct >> right now a massachusetts wo mystery surrounding her birth. she was abandoned at a hospital bathroom at a few days old. she's hoping to hunt down the woman who gave her up by facebook. >> reporter: she knows it's a long shot. >> i was literally shaking when i posted the post. >> reporter: she posted this to her facebook page asking her birth mother to write her back.
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don't know anything about my father. >> reporter: june 20th, 1991, she was found abandoned in a bathroom at baystate medical center in springfield, wrapped ifsa blanket with a bottle of milk. her name then was jane doe. >> personally don't think she did anything wrong. back in 1991, there was no safe haven laws. >> reporter: no charges filed against kathleen's teenage mother and she was adopted at three months old by the carr family. she grew u monson with her adopted family mother and sister, her family a loving one. but when she became a mom, she wanted to know more. her son, chevy three and daughter oh levy i can't five-month-old. she wants her birth mother to know she's a grandmother too. >> i don't go a day without thinking about my kids.
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day without wanting to meet -- >> jason: a special good-bye for the crew of seneca for carl schultz. friday officially turned it over to commander mccab. the ship received tons of cocaine, $240 million. >> right now, in waltham, on a stop in the nationwide tour, look at the picture here, the size replica of the actual memorial in washington, d.c. more than 30,000 names listed on the wall. the memorial will be at gore place in waltham through tomorrow. >> this is a storm tracker weather alert. >> jason brewer: good morning. after overnight storms, nice and quiet right now. here's the deal. the dew points come back up. the humidity is back with us. winds are out of the west,
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but it is going to be oppressively hot day out there today. temperatures soaring into the middle 90s. kind of like we did on friday. if it wasn't hot enough for you then. just wait for today. oppressive again. temperatures in the low 70s in most spots, dew point numbers significantly higher than where we were yesterday morning. in many spots, see the low 70s just feeling very sticky out there. so hot, humid, heat index up to 107 where you're seeing t brighter pink colors. that's the excessive heat warning and that's for heat index readings above 105. where the lighter orange shades, heat index 100 to 105 this afternoon. high temperatures into the middle 90s. west and southwest winds heat the coast up as well. rockport middle 80s for you. but beverly middle 90s. bedford as well. all the way around here in worcester, upper 80s to near 90 degrees.
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relief. suffer to do that, though. sandwich, 90 today. and with the humidity as high as it is we even have heat advisories there. let me show you the feels like numbers shake out. this is at 10:00 in the morning. wrapping up fox 25 morning news, we'll be feeling like the middle 90s already in most locations. then as we go to 2:00, 3:00, there's those 100 to 105 readings. peaking even higher in interior plymouth the excessive heat warning in affect for more dangerous levels. we'll be peaking near 100 even on cape cod today. that's where the advisory is issued there. by 7:00, all of the dangerous heat warnings expire but still feeling like the 90s. so a hot evening in store. but we do have some relief. this front coming in. going to help cut the humidity down tomorrow. but ahead of it today, we'll get that threat for a couple of stronger storms and they should
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southwest new hampshire, southern vermont, western mass. at around 1:00, 2:00 p.m. we'll watch the western sky making their way eastern, the north shore, right through the pike into 4:00, 5:00 p.m. then as we go 8:00, the storms making their way south and eastward, eventually a off of the coastline. i do want to show you, see how the winds are coming in from the atlantic, the southerly sea breeze, that may interact with the front and help to produce plymouth county toward the early evening. that's another spot that i'm going to watch carefully and of course sarah will be here to watch the radar too. download our fox 25 weather app, it's a great way to get lightning alert, heat advisory alerts and track rain on the radar. there's your monday, though, improvement on the way. more rain later tuesday into early wednesday. needed drought relief guys, back
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pulled from a boat on boston harbor. the details we know about the rescue. >> catherine: rumors a former
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>> reporter: hi everybody. i'm butch sterns. here's your sports for sunday morning. approaching august, sox in the middle of the pennant race and everything is crucial. rick porcello as sox try to sweep out of fenway. clay buchholz charged with three runs and four in the third. pitched it pretty well. keeps the sox in the game and they battle shot, 3-2, sox trail by 1. couple batters later, mookie betts, tied the game. brad zeigler struck out the side with the bases load understand the 8th. sox win it 6-3. other news, is jonathan pap pell bomb coming back to boston? dave says pap is worth looking
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reporting that pap pell bomb will welcome returning back to boston but weighing all of his options. day two of the isaiah thomas basketball ever basketball clinic. put on my pro camps worldwide. isaiah, having a lot of fun at these camps not only because he loves it but also because he's not much bigger than most of us. tonight sports wrap leydon and christopher wright and talk about patriots. have a good sunday, everybody. >> jason brewer: right now, i'm watching the end to one round of storms. but more on the way later today. we also have dangerous heat building right now. much more straight ahead. >> jason: plus hundreds of personal e-mail addresses >> jason: plus hundreds of personal e-mail addresses ex
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>> jason brewer: heat and stormsdz, how to avoid the worse of them for your sunday coming up. >> reporter: this morning, a lot of people waking up to damage and power outages after strong storms pass through the area. coming up. i'll take a look at the worse damage and the clean up efforts now underway. >> jason: buildings set on fire. a police car torched. a mayor calling for calm love your daughter u pull them by the ear and get them home. the gunshots that spark a night of violence in the midwest. >> catherine: the malfunction that cause add captain to lose control. >> complete new england news coverage starts right now. this is fox 25 morning news.
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probably heard that all night last night. amazing video from a viewer in fitchburg. thank you for that. lightning lighting up the sky. people in that area saw similar weather overnight. a lot of people waking up this morning without power. just over 3,000 homes without lights this morning. a lot of those in worcester county. good morning, everybody. >> catherine: it's august 14th, i'm catherine parrotta. t strong storms in our area last night. i know our editor on the way in all the way here. jackie bradley, jr. tracking dangerously hot temperatures before more storms. >> jason brewer: right now we're quiet on the radar. it's the heat that's going to start building. excessive heat warnings in affect for interior plymouth county. heat advisories most of the rest of surtdthern new england. let's take a look. the boston forecast middle 70s now. by noon, 90, feeling like 100.
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between 1:00 and 2:00, watch around keene and worcester county, a few of these making their way eastward through 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. a couple still strong out there until sunset. watch specifically where the sea breeze is starting to emerge with an approaching front. anywhere pike southward could be a strong shot of severe storms. localized flooding yet again a threat today. much more on this heat correct >> last night the storms knocked people. >> jason: yeah. stephanie coueignoux is live in quincy this morning, where multiple trees were knocked over by the storm. >> reporter: yeah, we're not just talking about power outages. we're also talking about damage from the storm. and taking a look here behind me, as we showed you in the last half hour we're here on rice road. and you can barely see that suv through all of these branches. you can see right up there, that branch actually pretty much split in two as those strong
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this happened around 2:30 this morning. on the other side of this, part of the windshield was cracked. part of the driver's door was damaged. incredibly that driver is okay. he was actually able to somehow get out of the suv and now spending the morning with a friend. again, this is how your tree now blocking off this road right here. a quincy police officer has been here for hours still waiting for the clean up crews to arrive. because this is just one of a number of areas where clean u responding to. i had hope to show you some video of another scene just a few blocks away. hopefully we'll get to that in another half hour. but, again, an amazing scene there, as a tree fell on adams street near colonial drive. that blocked the entire area. incredibly no one hurt there. but again many people waking up, people as they're waking up this morning, walking their dogs, telling me they heard incredible sounds of thunder and lightning
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course that has seen some damage earlier this morning. i was in arlington, and they had a lot of power outages there and coming up in 30 minutes, the cause of one of those outages that forced those crews to put up the do not cross lines through an entire street. in quincy, stephanie coueignoux, fox 25 news correct >> with those dangerously high temperatures expected today and the threat for more severe storms later this afternoon, now is the time to download the fox 25 weather app of you can track the temperatures where you are and where y plan your day. you can also get live radar as the storms start popping up. it's free for apple and android devices. >> jason: breaking this morning, chaos in wisconsin as angry crowds took to the streets of milwaukee hours after a police officer shot and killed an armed man during a foot race. violence started early in the evening and stretched past midnight. one police car smashed. another torched. at least four businesses set on
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station. firefighters actually had to hold off battling that fire because of gunfire nearby. the city's mayor addressed the violence in an early morning news conference imploring parents to check on their kids. >> a mother who is watching this right now and your young son or daughter is not home and you think they're in this area, get them home right now. >> jason: at this hour, we know police have arrested at least three people from these pr yesterday afternoon after a suspect armed with a handgun, ran from a traffic stop. that incident being investigated by the state. also break, this morning, a manhunt in georgia right now after a police officer was shot and killed out of make con. eastham patrol officer tim smith was shot and killed last night after a call about a suspicious person. this happened around 9:30 the suspect not identified yet and still at large this morning. >> catherine: this morning, a woman is?
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the woman who is in her 20s was in a crosswalk on william jay boulevard. and rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. the driver was stopped at the scene. no word on any charges. >> jason: the coast guard rescued six people after their boat sank in boston harbor. crews got the call. and they found the people near a sinking boat between castle dorchester bay. this video shows the people back on shore. what caused their boat to sink is still unknown this morning. >> catherine: this is video you'll see only on fox 25 this morning. smoke from a tour boat billowing into the air with a deck full of people in batch harbor. this after the boat named the regency collided with several others. told us in a statement, the vessel experienced an unexpected control failure while docking at the long wharf.
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of engines causing the captain to lose control. no one was injured but the regency did have broken windows. >> thank god nobody was hurt but these are things that are still concerning. making you weary whether it's safe to ride a boat or not. >> catherine: the two boats struck the rookie and aurora are expected to be back in service pending coast guard approval. >> jason: a man died after being pulled from a pool at bridgewater apartment complex. residents trying to save him, already performing cpr time e.m.s. showed up. the man taken to the hospital and passed away about three hours later. this picture from the scene from the brockton enterprise. so far authorities haven't said if this was a drowning or in other kind of medical episode. >> tonight the community in princeton will come together to honor the life of vanessa marcotte. marcotte was murdered during a
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they asked people to bring balloons to be released into the air tonight. investigators are combing through nearly 600 tips to find her killer. >> reporter: 27-year-old vanessa marcotte will be laid to rest in westminster tuesday. it's been a week since the woman, visiting family in princeton, went out for a jog but never came home. police are focused on the hours between 1:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon in the and activity brooks station road during that time. that's when marcotte was last seen jogging wednesd area where police found her body less than a mile from her mother's home. we learned from police, marcotte fought her killer and now they're asking for the public to look out for anyone with bruises, cuts, or injuries similar to a struggle. wachusett mountain called them about a couple who showed up tuesday afternoon and if man had bruises object his body. westminster police chief told fox 25 that couple was involved
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the police chief says this has nothing to do with marcotte's murder. the d.a.'s office had no comment. >> catherine: state and local police have set up a tip line for any information about vanessa's death. this is the number to call on the screen there. and all tips are anonymous. >> jason: a rhode island man in custody when he was accused of being under the influence when hitting a well fleet police cruiser at midnight on route 6. test on another driver, when juan font necessary hit the cruisers. he was taken to the hospital and his passenger, suffering from injuries. no one else, though, was hurt. >> i'll tell you, honestly, i'm not running against crooked
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some top republicans this weekend by choosing to make a campaign stop in connecticut last night. connecticut hasn't gone for a republican president since george h.w. bush in 1988. here's why the gop brass is concerned. republican nominee has work to do in three key battle ground states. according to a new wall street journal poll. trump trails hillary clinton in iowa, ohio, and pennsylvania. hoping to bolster the big lead in the granite state hampshire. and kerry kavanaugh reports, he wasted no time taking shots at donald trump and his vision offer america. >> we are too great of a nation, to believe donald trump. we just can't do it. we can't do it. [cheers and applause] and every week, every week, he gives us a new reason not to believe him. >> reporter: democratic vice-presidential nominee tim
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at an event in new hampshire saturday afternoon. the virginia senator didn't focus solely on trump but promoted hillary clinton's economic plan, outing the large investment in job creation since the second world war. >> for hillary clinton, the most important thing we need to do is to build an economy that not only grows, but an economy where the growth is shared and where everybody has a ladder that they can climb to achieve what their dreams are. >> reporter: kaine told the crowd, mod service analyzed the plan and claims it will lead to big time growth. >> if her plan is implemented, the economy will grow by 10 million jobs in the first term of hillary clinton. and we'll be in a significant recovery. >> jason: kerry kavanaugh reporting this morning. clinton's proposed 100 day jobs plan, claims in invest, in infrastructure and american manufacturing as well as cutting taxes and red tape. twitter has suspended the accounts of the hacker who has
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latest d.n.c. e-mail leak. the online person know known only as gos ssi pher2.0. house leader nancy pelosi is one of the democrats who claims her e-mail has been leaked. she's urging her kids not to get near her phone and working to change her phone number. >> catherine: we're not t some are dealing with major flooding right now. >> oh my god. i'm drowning. >> we're coming. we're coming. >> incredible rescue of the car. and slips under the surface. >> jason: shoppers are mourning their tax-free weekend. there's a new and inventive ways the stores are giving customers a break.
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>> jason brewer: welcome back. i'm tracking excessive heat warnings and heat advisories all across southern new england. lawrence, heat index at 3:00 today, 102. be careful out there. i've got a threat of storms as
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>> jason: 7:14 this sunday. with sales tax revenue down this year, massachusetts lawmakers decided to eliminate the annual sales tax holiday weekend. it would be normally around this weekend. with the back to school shopping around the corner, that's a lot from the deals they got in the past. but many local retailers finding new and inventive ways to attract customers. >> reporter: relied on the tax sale holiday for snowblower. this year, depending on sales price and special rewards to draw them in. the epitome of a small building. the tax holiday will cost him thousands he says. >> last year we had one of the best augusts we ever had. last year great, this year not going to be so great. >> reporter: jordans furniture
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double the sales tax. lazy boy, saving you four times the sales tax and taking care of the sales tax on work out equipment. >> the notion of kind of sticking it to the state maybe gets people. so you have most furniture stores in massachusetts advertising they're going to save you 6.25% or double the sales 20 to $30,000 in revenue. governor baker says this year it doesn't make any sense. >> i'm thrilled to see a lot of retail signs coming up with variety and creative ways of enticing shoppers into their stores. >> reporter: but he says he can't afford to slash prices any more than he already has. >> i know 6.25 isn't a lot. but for some reason some people
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spend money locally. >> jason: another side effect is that shoppers will go north into new hampshire to make big purchases. >> catherine: the mbta one step away from choosing a new app user friendly for commuters. they presented their technology on friday and here's what they look like. the public had a chance to weigh in. the winning app will be featured on the mbta website for a year. express lane avoiding long lines when you go into customs. it's a free app. if you have it, you take a picture of your passport and yourself. when you land in the u.s., it opens up and grabs your flight info and wave your phone over a scanner and step right over to customs. logan says the app should be available by the end of the month. >> this is a storm tracker weather alert. >> jason brewer: we have a weather alert today because we have excessive heat.
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a couple of things to talk about. i wanted to start with the temperatures we had yesterday. today it's going to be so different. a lot of 80s out there we had. we did get to 90 degrees farther west and we started to see storms there flare up and weakened eastward into cooler air up against the coastline. then the warm air surging westward overnight. basically a warm front passing through here and seeing the heat and humidity today as a result of. some of the storms, localized lightning reports coming in. you heard from stephanie there in quincy. let's go to westford. wires down at 2:00 a.m. in the morning. power crews working hard to get everything back up and running today. we need the a.c. on a day like today. let's check on the beneficial rain we've had aside from the flooding reports soaking rain. 3 inches in leominster. westford more than 1 inch of rain.
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about 1 inch of rain in the last day and a half. partly cloudy skies, 74 with the dew point at 72. very humid. a south westerly wind has returned. when i see you next hour, well see a few 80s popping up. feeling more like the 90s before the end of this broadcast. here's the big culprit, those oppressive dew points in the 70s very tropical. that's service has issued the heat alert. the bright pink is the excessive heat warning. and the orange shades are the heat advisories. and those are 100 to 105. plymouth county the most dangerous spot on the map today. look at those higher temperatures, lower to middle 90s anywhere you go. a little bit of relief there cape ann some ocean cooling. same thing for the cape and islands. but it's still going to be
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running in the mid 90s as far as it feels. all right. that computer has frozen on me. oh, good. it just skipped ahead. i'm going to advance it by hand and stay with he in. look at the feels like readings. feeling like the 90s at 10:00 in the morning. so it's stuff out there as we wrap up this news cast. look at this, 2:00, 3:00 in the afternoon, plus 101, 102, up to 105 in norwood, providence and even around hyannis and the advisory because you're going to be approaching 100 on the heat index scale by mid-afternoon. there's 7:00, still feeling like the 90s. but we're out of the danger zone. watch this front to the northwest, this is where we're watching for the storms to develop over-northwestern mass. first about 2:00 today. eastward between 3:00 and 4:00 possibly on the coastline here on the north and south shore. you can see the heavier storms
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and east of boston. there's your seven-day forecast. some relief comes tomorrow, not as humid. more rain on the way, late tuesday, into early wednesday. >> jason: the pentagon is reminding employees playing pok?mon go on their work phones could threaten security. a july memo from pentagon officials say it could be used to pinpoint locations of security facilities. pentagon reportedly concerned it could be used in spying recruitment attempts or to access secrets. a push for into how massachusetts tells time. some people looking for the state to put an end to daylight savings time for good. the reason others say that's not such a good idea. >> catherine: an unusual such a good idea. >> catherine: an unusual companion one man was introducing dunkin's new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultra-smooth, full-bodied flavor. discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on.
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oregon. a lot of people wondering how it happened of a wild fire can create its own wind and that can turn into a spinning vortex of flames like you see right there. >> catherine: i was telling you, jason, it reminds me of the wizard of oz when the wicked witch blows in. speaking of the wizard of oz, let's talk about flying monkeys. the mbta didn't want any monkey business from the passenger here. this guy brought a monkey on to a plane. spotted the monkey in the shirt. clearly shows the man being screened with the monkey. front tear airline nobody gave them a head's up about it. the monkey was well behaved and showed proper documentation. apparently no one went bananas. jason and and i were talking about how we never heard of a service monkey before. i don't know about it. what do you think about it? >> jason brewer: i've never heard of it.
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complete new england news coverage starts right now. this is fox 25 morning news. >> catherine: all right. just before 7:30 right now. your sunday morning. a live look at the city skyline there in boston. you can see a blue sky. a couple there. even a bird in the shop. not a bad morning overall. >> jason: going to be able to put our hands up to the screen and feel the heat coming off. it's going to be so hot today. or feels like it. the feels like temperatures, jason brewer, is are intimidating. >> jason brewer: that's right. and down right dangerous. that's why there's an excessive heat warning up for plymouth county. the hottest spot on the map today. expecting relief cape cod and the vineyard, in the heat
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105 in those spots and feeling like 105 plus in parts of plymouth county. this is one of those days you want to keep it inside with the a.c. if we can. after 2:00, watch the western skies storms moving in. back to you. >> catherine: right now more than 120 people without power from the latest round of storms. >> jason: a lot of damage. fox 25 stephanie coueignoux is live in quincy in front of middle of a street. stephanie. >> reporter: yeah, this is a narrow, narrow. jason we've been showing you this scene live for the past hour. you can barely see this suv under all of these branches. i just spoke with the woman who lives right next door. she says when she heard the crash around 2:30 this morning, she rushed outside and says she still can't believe the driver in that suv managed to get out really without a scratch.
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rice road, this area is still blocked off. and i want to show you another scene along colonial street and adams street, this tree down also at the same time. police patrolling that area to make sure that people don't harm themselves as driving through that area. they're still waiting for crews to clean up that area. that's not the only area that sa storms rolled on through. earlier this morning, we were in arlington, with several thousand people dealing with power outages there. and the fire department responded to this scene. video from that scene along broadway. what happened there they were telling me is a lightning bolt struck a transformer on broadway causing the massive outages. the utility crews there said they would be there for at least several hours as they were work to go restore power there.
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across our viewing area as people are waking up, many realizing they had trees down where they are, they had power outages. a lot of damage. but it's a clear and very calm morning so far. again, more rounds of showers and storms. jason brewer of course tracking that. and coming up in 30 minutes, i've been speaking with residents here and let you know how they describe this scene as they woke up to what they say was an incredible display of mother nature. for now in quincy, coueignoux, fox 25 news. >> catherine: now is the time to make sure you have the fox 25 weather app. a great way to keep track of the severe weather, even as you lose power. our team of meteorologists constantly updating it with new information hour by hour. it is free to download. >> jason: we continue to monitor breaking news out of wisconsin. a man shot and killed by police yesterday sparked a night of chaos in milwaukee. look at the scene overnight. angry crowds took to the street, smashing and torching police cars.
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businesses, including a gas station, were set on fire. shots rang out in the area. forcing firefighters from holding off on battling that fire until safe to do so. so far at least three people have been arrested. state is investigating that police shooting that started it all. now, closer to home an investigation is underway into shots possibly fired at emergency responders of this happened on elm street in manchester new hampshire early yesterday afternoon. e.m.t.s treating someone who was heard gunshots. >> expedited their transport, got out of there as fast as we could. >> jason: it sounded like shots rang right over their head, they said. despite that, investigators do believe shots were fired. and still looking into it. no one was hurt. >> catherine: in the same city, a robber victim managed to turn the tables on a set of attackers stabbing them with their own knife. it happened just before 1:00 a.m.
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the victim fought back, grabbed his attacker knife and stand the men. they've been identified as 36-year-old james dixon and 32 johnan vertigan. >> jason: a woman hit aa boat propeller in stage harbor. they were called out to rescue he yesterday afternoon. the 27-year-old was imswimming in the channel sound as the accident happened. the incident under investigation this morning. >> catherine: one week left in the summer games and michael phelps ending his career on a high note. he took home gold in the 400 med lee relay yesterday. 25th medal overall and the fifth in this olympics. the third man to win
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man in the world made the debut in the summer games yesterday. first with a time of 10.07 seconds. >> jason: the united states is still leading the pack with 60 medals overall, 25 gold. great britain round out the top three with 30 medals total. speaking of medals team u.s.a. windfall in the u.s. olympics committee hands out the bucks for every medal won and the value of that medal is also taxed. here's how it breaks down of a gold medal winner gets $25,000. and the medal itself is worth 546 bucks. bronze is awarded $10,000. but the medals are not taxed they're not worth much.
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the house is considering them to make them exempt from income taxes. if it becomes law, it will apply to earnings dating back to the start of the year. >> catherine: a woman's pet is dragged away by a coyote the latest of many incidents of coyotes in our area. the big role weather is playing in getting them out in the community. >> jas switzerland this morning. >> jason brewer: severe storm
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four hundred million dollars. that's how much charter schools will drain from massachusetts public schools this year. four hundred million siphoned from local districts
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fund more science and technology, arts or preschool, counseling, or smaller class sizes. four hundred million unavailable to the ninety-six percent of students who don't attend charter schools. let's improve public schools for all students, not just a select few. vote no on question 2. >> catherine: new this morning, one of the victims of a brazen attack on a train has died. a 27-year-old man accused of stabbing people and starting a fire on the train yesterday in switzerland. four others remain in critical condition. the motive for the attack right
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using surveillance video, who shot and killed a muslim man one of them a religious leader. leaving a mosque in queens, both men shot in the head. both men wearing religious clothing at the time. no sign their faith played a role in the attack. security cameras captured the gunman, running from the scene with the weapon still in hand. police are still investigating. a video you have to see, dramatic footage out of louisiana with intense flooding pummelling the area. on saturday, a television crew cameras were running when a woman was pulled from the car with only moments to spare. kerry kavanaugh looks at the heart-wrenching rescue. >> do you have something? >> yes. >> reporter: a red mazda sinking nose first into the water near baton rouge. with near seconds before the car slips under. three men jump into action all
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>> reporter: the woman inside trapped with her dog. she had no way to get out. reality setting in. >> i'm going to die. i'm drowning. >> we're coming. we're coming. >> i'm going to break this window. >> we're breaking the window. >> reporter: the dire situation gets worse as water continues to poor into the cabin. one man sees the danger and jumps in. then seconds later, an arm goes completely under. >> get my dog. get my dog. get my dog now. i'll go down and -- >> i can't get the dog. >> here, here. >> i can't get the dog. >> that -- >> there's your dog.
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>> oh. >> catherine: wow, unbelievable. unbelievable. good work by them. >> jason: isn't that amazing? she was gone, she was in trouble. >> to get her out and the dog, it's incredible. a woman looking to unlock a decades mystery, the online post, she's hoping would lead lower to the unknown. >> jason: a push to end daylight savings time in massachusetts. some people in favor of ending the old pr >> jason: not everybody on
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>> jason brewer: braintree, how about 105, that's what it's going to be feeling like. be careful out there. storm timing coming up. >> catherine: the clock is ticking on a controversial idea to move massachusetts into a new time zone. the move having us leaving the easter standard time behind no more daylight saving time or turning the clocks or moving them forward. sharman sacchetti has a look at beacon hill to put massachusetts and possibly all of new england
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time. >> reporter: spring forward fall back, what if you didn't have to worry about changing the clock ever again. thomas pitched the idea of moving to atlantic standard time to a state senator john keenan. keenan submitted it on his behalf. >> people do not like when the clocks fall back. >> the public health literature indicates when we spring forward in march, attacks more accidents and more problems at work because we're giving millions of people jet lag all at the same time. >> reporter: now law signed by the governor as part of the economic development bill. >> this is particularly important to folks in the senate that there be a legislative committee put together to study it in deference to the senate's interest in doing that, we signed that. so my view is current structure we have is fine.
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idea. >> i especially worry if we head too far down this road we could end up creating a lot of problems for sourses with respect to all sorts of issues, around work schedules, commuting schedules and a whole bunch of other things. >> the children get extremely confused. it's about a week to ten days of getting their sleep patterns goings the right way again. >> i think it's a great idea, yeah. >> i think it's not going to be a good idea. >> reporter: he says he'd like to get board but this is the first time. >> i think we're so far east in the eastern time zone we actually belong in the atlantic time. >> reporter: a report is due out in march of 2017. while it does need the governor's approval. final say rests with the u.s. department of transportation. sharman sacchetti, fox 25 news. >> this is a fox 25 storm tracker weather alert.
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temperatures at 72. when those numbers are matching, it feels very humid and when this number is high in the 70s. it feels sticky and oppressive. that's what we're seeing today. the winds the southwest that are going to continue for the day today. and really bring in that heat and humidity. so just a tough one. and let me show you the temperatures area wide right now. we're in the 70s just about anywhere you go. even around the cape and islands not much relief today. let me show you the dew point temperatures, in the middle 70s just about anywhere you go as well. you can see there around worcester, 69, not much relief. i'm going to advance things and stay off camera here. stay with me. want to show you the heat advisories we have. those pinks those are excessive heat warnings. and that is where you get above 105 on the heat index. dangerous heat out there today, guys. take a break and stay in the a.c. if you can. no reason to be out unless you're in the pool or along the
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work. headed to fenway today, dress in light colored clothing, stay hydrated, middle 90s, boston to brookline, back to framingham. fitchburg in the low to middle 90s. look at brockton at 97. bridgewater as well. that's where that excessive heat warning is up. and if you're looking for relief, the cape and islands, not much. still going to feel like the upper 90s to near 100 even on cape cod. there are your feels like temperatures at 10:00 this morning. we're already feeling lik as we go into the middle afternoon, we're starting to feel like the 100s or even higher. tough stuff through the 5:00, 6:00 hour. by 7:00, out of the 100 zone but still feeling like the 90s. then we turn our attention to this front. this next cold front is going to bring the threat of severe weather this afternoon. watch around 1:00, 2:00, across northwestern mass. as we go into the afternoon. this is a brand new model run,
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morning long. but the story the same. by 9:00 still a little bit of rain on the radar. and we're specifically going to watch south and eastward from boston for any lingering storms into the early evening. now the seven-day forecast, some relief tomorrow, not as hot. still the upper 80s but a little less humid. so we'll take that. and the rain is going to be out of here on monday. tuesday afternoon, a new threat that lasts into early wednesday. a rumble of thunder could be mix understand there. on thursday, fairly quiet. middle 80s and a nice way to wrap up the upcoming workweek and into the weekend. right now pretty good news. the forecast looking nice, comfortable, lower 80s and dry conditions. >> jason brewer: all right. in the next half hour, an updated look at your county by county feels like forecast. >> jason: all right.
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sinking boat in boston harbor. the details of the late night res excuse. >> catherine: plus the sox looking to close out the series
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>> reporter: hi everybody, i'm butch stearns, here's your sports first sunday morning. approaching mid august, sox in the middle of the pennant race and everything is crucial. rick porcello against zack cranky, as the sox try to sweep arizona out of fenway. last night, clay buck hazardous first start since july 2nd. buchholz three runs and a fourth in the third. pitched pretty well, and kept the sox in the archie bradley. sox trail by 1. mookie betts knocks with a go ahead run. tied the game. brad zeigler struck out the side with the bases loaded in the 8th. sox win it 6-3. other sox news, is jonathan papelbon coming back to boston? released by washington yesterday. david says pap is worth looking into.
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of the season but he's weighing all of his openings. going on right now, this morning at reading high school, day two of the isaiah thomas basketball clinic, put on by camp pro worldwide. having a lot of fun with these campers also because he loves it but also because he's not much bigger than most of them. you'll hear him talk about duran and more. tonight on sports wrap. we'll have tom leydon and kiss christopher price in the tonight, sunday night sports wrap. have a great sunday, everybody. >> jason: new england hit with a whubl whammy. facing a dangerous heat ahead. >> catherine: stephanie coueignoux on the scene with damage this morning. >> jason brewer: there's going to be a lot more of that. by 10:00 this morning, feeling
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>> jason brewer: heat and storms, how to avoid the worse of them for your sunday coming up. >> reporter: this morning, a lot of people waking up to storms passed through the area. coming up i'll take a look at the worse damage and the clean up he have all right follows now underway. >> jason: buildings set on fire, a police car torched. a mayor calling for calm. >> if you love your son, love your daughter, pull them by the ear and get them home. >> jason: the gun fire that, spaed chaos in the west. >> catherine: a deck full of
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caused a captain to lose control. >> complete new england coverage continues right now. this fox 25 morning news. >> jason: wow, common sight and sound overnight. amazing new video coming in from a fox 25 viewer in fitchburg. obviously huge lightning bolt lighting up the sky in fitchburg. people in the area saw similar weather playing out all over the place. good morning, it's 8:00, sunday, august i'm jason law. >> catherine: i'm catherine parrotta. those strong storms moved through our area overnight. they're on the way out. but more could pop up later today. fox 25's meteorologist is tracking dangerous temperatures. >> jason brewer: threat of rain this afternoon. but extreme heat a high threat because it is already noticeably more humid compared to yesterday. our heat index could be as high as 107 in interior plymouth county. that's why an excessive heat
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heat advisories up and down the north and south shore. even cape cod and the vineyard a heat advisory today. noontime, 90 degrees feeling like 100. 3:00, feeling like 102 with middle 90s and the threat for storms rising into the 3:00 hour right through the early evening. so i'm going to watch out west between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. for storms to bubble up. then they track eastward toward the coastline. through the late afternoon and early evening. we could see a few heavier storms developing especial into the south shore. and sunset with all of the heat to work with. back with much more when all of this heat -- >> catherine: damage from the storms coming in now. looking at this picture. this shows the damage a lightning strike did. in salem, new hampshire. fortunately, no one was hurt here. but now fox 25 stephanie coueignoux continues our coverage from quincy. >> jason: damage there as well, stephanie, toppled several big trees in convince see?
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city. i have to tell you jason brewer is tracking those temperatures, it is getting hot and sticky here in quincy. certainly can't be comfortable for all of the crews cleaning up all of these trees. we've been showing you this scene on rice road you can see this suv or perhaps barely see it through all of these limbs and branches right here. and take a look. that branch very high up in the air. that actually cracked during the height of this storm at around 2:30 ts road, obviously, an incredibly scary situation. amazingly, though, he was able to make it out safely and now spending the morning at a friend's house. again, that is not the only scene here in quincy. i do want to show you a video of a massive tree limb down on adams street. and this is actually in the intersection of colonial drive. crews there had some chain saws. but they weren't using them. because they seemed to be too
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very heavy, large, tree limbs blocking that area as well. so, again, clean up crews very busy here this morning in quincy. earlier i did speak with one man who lives in this neighborhood, he said at the height of the storm, that lightning was just so intense and just so bright. it was almost like the sun was out. >> you could read a book by the light of the lightning. no question about it. >> reporter: and it lasted, what, about an hour? >> at least. at least. because i stayed out on i should've had the newspaper out there, i would've been able to read the newspaper. >> reporter: yeah, the power of all of that lightning. you saw that video from figure, that was pretty much what it was like in quincy. a live look behind me, you can see a police officer has been blocking this road because, again, a lot of people not realizing where these down trees are. they've been trying to drive through the area.
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city as they wait for clean up crews to get underway. we were talking about also massive power outages. i was in arlington, and coming up, the reason why there were so many power outages that forced some of those crews to put do not cross lines along part of a city block. in quincy, stephanie coueignoux, fox 25 news. >> catherine: with those dangerously high temperatures expected today and the threat for more severe storms later this afternoon, now is the time to download the fox 25 weather app. you can track the temperatures where you are and where y you can also get live radar as the storms start popping up. it's free for apple and android devices. >> jason: we continue to follow breaking news this morning chaos as angry protesters took to the streets in milwaukee minutes after a police officer killed an armed man on a police chase. one police car was smashed.
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at least four buildings set on fire. one of those a gas stations. firefighters had to hold off battling that fire because of gunfire going off nearby. the city mayor addressed it in a early news conference imploring parents to check in on their kids. >> a mother watching this right now and your why you can son or daughter is not home and you think they're in this area, get them home right now. >> jason: now, we know police people. the shooting happened yesterday afternoon after a suspect armed with a handgun ran from a traffic stop. that incident now being investigated by the state. also a manhunt in georgia this morning after a police officer was killed outside of make con. he was shot after an responding to a call about a suspicious person. this happened around 9:30 last night. the suspect has not been identified and still at large this morning. >> catherine: and this morning, a woman in critical condition after being hit by a car in
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was in a crosswalk on william j boulevard when she was hit last night. she was rushed to the boston medical center with life-threatening injuries of the driver was stopped and no word on whether he's facing any charges this morning. >> jason: six people rescued after their boat sank in batch harbor. the coast guard rescue boat found the people in the water near a sinking boat in dorchester bay. this video shows the peopl e.m.s. after they were pulled out. what caused their boat to sink is still under investigation. >> catherine: take a look. this is video you'll only see on fox 25 this morning. smoke from a tour boat billowing into the air with a deck full of people. this is in batch harbor. this after the boat named the regency childed with several others. batch harbor cruise told us in a statement, unexpected control fail europe while docking at long wharf.
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captain to lose control. no one on board was hurt. but regency did have broken windows. >> this is disturbing, making you leary whether it's safe to ride a boat or are not. >> catherine: the two boats that were struck are pending to be back in service pending approval. the town common three mile run to honor vanessa marcotte. she was murdered during a jog organizers asking to bring a balloon to release into the air of the event. it comes as funeral plans are set for the 27-year-old. investigators are combing through nearly 600 tips to find her killer. >> reporter: 27-year-old vanessa marcotte will be laid to rest in westminster on tuesday. it's been a week since the woman who was visiting family in princeton went out for a jog but never came home. police are focusing on the activity brooks station road during that time.
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jogging on wednesday afternoon. we learned from police marcotte fought her killer and now they're asking the public to look out for anyone with bruises, cuts, or any other injuries similar to a struggle. police did investigate one incident after officials at nearby wachusett mountain called them about a couple who showed up tuesday afternoon and the man had bruises on his body. the best minister police chief told fox 25 that couple was in an accid refused treatment. the police chief says this has nothing too do with marcotte's murder. the d.a. has no comment. >> catherine: they're asking for the public's health. they set up a tip line for anyone with information about vanessa's death. the number on your screen. that's the number to call. all tips are anonymous. >> i'll tell you, honestly, i'm not running against crooked
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media. >> jason: donald trump confusing top republicans this weekend by choosing to make a campaign stop in connecticut last night. that state hasn't gone for a republican president since george h.w. bush way back in 1988. here's why the gop brass is concerned. the republican nominee has a lot of work to do in three key battle ground states. according to a new wall street journal poll, trump hillary clinton in iowa. tim kaine campaigned in manchester. kaine wasted no time taking shots at the republican nominee and his vision of america. >> we are too great a nation to believe donald trump. we just can't do it. we can't do it. [cheers and applause]
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believe him. >> reporter: democratic vice-presidential nominee tim kaine back on the campaign trail at an event in new hampshire saturday afternoon. the virginia senator didn't focus solely on trump but on hillary clinton's economic plan. the largest investment in job creation since the second world war. >> for hillary clinton, the most important thing we need to do is to build an economy that not only grows, but an economy where the growth is shared and where everybody has a can climb to achieve what their dreams are. >> reporter: kaine told the crowd, moody investor service analyzed clinton's plan and claims it will lead to big time growth. >> if hillary clinton is elected and if her plan is implemented, the economy will grow by 10 million jobs in the first term of hillary clinton. [cheers and applause] and we'll see a significant recovery. >> jason: that was kerry kavanaugh reporting for us this morning. clinton's proposed 100 day jobs
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infrastructure and american manufacturing as well as cutting taxes and red tape. twitter suspended the account of the hacker who claimed responsibility for the latest d.n.c. e-mail leak. the online known as guccifer 2.0 is claimed for outing the e-mails. nancy pelosi is one of the senators who had her e-mail leaked. now she's claiming to get sick and disturbing not let their kids have their phone. and already working to get her phone number changed. >> catherine: coming up, the incredible rescue as a car fills with water and slips under the surface. >> jason: also this sunday, a cat, snatched and dragged away by a coyote. the cat's owner watched unable to save her pet. >> you know, i'm a nurse for years and seen a lot of horrible
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>> jason: next what's going on with our weather that may explain why more and more coyotes are popping up in your neighborhood. >> jason brewer: and the clouds thinning out from the overnight storms.
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>> jason brewer: welcome back. feels like forecast today is just rough. 3:00, zooming around taking a look at various neighborhoods. this is excessive heat warning for plymouth county around bridgewater, you're going to feel like 107 at 3:00 today. there will be a threat for storms later. but the heat the big story as you get started on your sunday. back with all of this straight ahead. >> jason: this morning, an 81-year-old woman and husband are heart broken after watching 16-year-old cat and drag it off into the woods. one wildlife expert thinks the drought we're going through could be bringing more coyotes into neighborhoods. but in a story you'll only see on fox 25, jim morelli reports that's something that state officials don't necessarily agree with. >> reporter: loretta is in mourning this week for one of her cats. >> he was beautiful. i just had his haircut. >> reporter: this past weekend, loretta let her cats, both 16
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yard. then she heard a scream. >> the noise was terrible, blood curdling. >> reporter: the sound came from one of her cats who was moments from being killed by a coyote. >> i was a nurse for years and saw a lot of horrible things in the o.r. but this was something different. this was horrible. >> reporter: residents say this year more than any they can remember coyotes coming out of the woodwork. but biologistrenna says high coyote activity in mm >> the young are actually learning how to hunt. >> reporter: but one expert says drought conditions have been known to push coyotes deeper into neighborhoods. something which happened in california. >> drought can certainly cause wildlife to be stressed and be looking for available water resources wherever they are. >> reporter: but the drought here is nothing like the drought in california, state officials say. and food is plentiful. >> what we do is a lot more of the small 34578 males, their
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year. >> reporter: else did spite having a cat for 16 years, they have no photographs of their beloved pet. the last picture loretta has, the one she never wanted to see. >> and he went up into the woods and that was it. he was gone. just gone. >> reporter: now, although a tax on pets are sadly common by coyotes. attacks on humans exceedingly rare and almost never happens. still there's fear. so what should you do if you encounter a coyote. pans, bang them together, the idea is to get them off of your territory. jim morelli fox 25 news. >> jason: and new this morning, police officers stepped out of their normal duties for a little known egg hunt. check this out. these little guys escaped from their home on boston road in sutton yesterday. so a few officers came over and rounded them up. once the pigs were rounded up,
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owners were able to get there. >> this is a storm tracker weather alert. >> jason brewer: check out the time lapse from the the storms yesterday. starting to fire up out to the west. and then we had the warm, humid air surging northward over night. help to bring another round of storms all the way across the boston metro area in the early morning hours today. now we are nice and quiet just under partly cloudy skies. so check out these damage reports over the last 24 hours. all wind, lightning and we heard from stephanie coueignoux in quincy, leominster over toward webster. let's zoom in to south worcester county here. around midnight. wires down on perriville road. power outages. crews are going to have to deal with heat and humidity as they get things fixed up. temperatures in the middle 70s. the dew point high. tropical feel in the air. look at the wind out of the southwest now, a hot humid airflow coming up for us today.
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even near 80 new bedford, heat index already about 85 degrees. and it's only the 8:00 a.m. temperature report. there's those dew points, any time they're in the 70s, it starts to feel pretty oppressive. stuffy heat advisory, heat index cut to 107 and interior plymouth county and bristol county. so this is the pocket where it gets the worse this afternoon around 2:00, 3:00, 4:00. that's the high time of the heat. you see those lighter seakest back into southern new hampshire. now the humidity will be slightly lower. we'll also have a threat for a couple of storms cutting into the heat. that's why we don't have the heat advisory westward into the worcester hills and back up into southwest new hampshire. look at these temperatures, either way, 90s about area wide. middle 90s most spots. lowell, bedford, boston, brookline, norwood, 95 to 97
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of showers and storms as early as 1:00, 2:00 there. more on the storm timing coming up. the cape and islands, not going to get a whole lot of relief. you will have a southwest breeze gusting up to 20, 25 miles an hour an hour at times. the breeze will help you a bit. feeling 90 close to 100 around places like sandwich today. now temperatures on the feels like scale at 10:00 a.m. feels like the 90s. as we wrap up here on fox 25 morning news to feel the triple digit heat index readings and above. and early evening, heat advisories will expire. we're out of the danger zone. but still feels awfully rough out there. unless you're hit by a shower or thunderstorm to cool you down. here's what we have. this next front approaching. start to see a few showers and storms flare up first i think in parts of southwest new hampshire and western mass. here's the latest timing. this is the brand new model run.
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but still a general trend. 1:00, 2:00, going to be watching northwestern parts of the area for a couple of storms to pop up. by 5:00 p.m., scattered in nature. making this are way eastward and going to watch right here, the sea breeze from the south coast. may help to focus a few storms along the pike and point southward, late day early evening and then everything kind of slides off to the east and southeast and eventually off shore by around 10:00 tonight and then we're nice and quiet for tomorrow. showers on the way. but the big news, humidity will be coming down just enough to get us out of the heat advisory categories for the rest of the week. so we'll take that. back to you. >> jason: local woman hoping social media can help her find her birth mother 25 years after abandoned in the hospital. >> i know nothing. i haven't seen a picture, don't know anything about my father. >> jason: the life changing event that made her decide to begin the search. >> catherine: but first a fire
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>> catherine: here's a story
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department is looking for this boa constrictor discovered on memorial avenue last night. animal control officers are taking care of the snake right now. but if you are the owner give police a call. >> jason: i don't like snakes. >> catherine: i know. >> jason: this is a fire tornado. respected in portland oregon, wild fire can create its wind and that can turn the fire into a spinning vortex of places. fire caught up in the twister. portland, oregon there. >> catherine: pretty sure the t.s.a. doesn't want any monkey business from airline passengers. a man who brought a service monkey on to a plane. customers causing concern when spotting that animal in his shirt. frontier airlines says nobody
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the man showed the proper documentation. there you have it. a real life flying monkey. >> jason: how cute he is. >> catherine: i love him. >> jason: tiny guy on the hold shoulder. he didn't try to smuggle him in or anything. but he had them out front. >> jason brewer: never seen a monkey that small, i don't think. heat index 107 going feel like interior county. also a chance of severe weather today straight ahead. >> reporter: a very close call for one driver as storms ripped through the area. for one driver as storms ripped through the area. in quincy, w introducing dunkin's new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultra-smooth, full-bodied flavor. discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on.
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more of that blue sky there over the skyline. but also starting to get pretty hot out there. >> jason: the humidity in the feels like temperatures that are going to get you. in fact, jason brewer staggering numbers in the forecast, jason. >> jason brewer: don't be fooled. nice sunrise camera view. but extreme heat a big concern for today. and then there's going to be a threat for more strong damaging wind gusts and hopefully heavy rain as well. so let's focus on the heat. heat advisories in excessive heat warnings up for most even cape cod. the vineyard excluded in the heat advisory today. through 7:00, so excessive temperatures. 3:00 mid 90s feels like 102. at 7:00, still feels like the lower 90s. and that threat of storms rising. after 2:00 today, watch first in northwestern massachusetts by about 2:00 p.m. storms to start bubbling up.
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the early evening. one spot to watch may end up being south of the pike where the sea breeze is coming in and helping to focus storms over plymouth county. especially with all of the heat. back with much more coming up correct >> this morning, people are waking up and surveying the damage from last night's storms. >> jason: yeah, stephanie coueignoux is live in incidence quincy this morning. you just spoke to a guy who had a tree branch fall on him when he was driving down the road? actually came by about 20 minutes ago to survey the damage that his suv right underneath this incredible branch right here. not much he can do until the utility crews start to clear things away. he was saying he was driving around 2:30 here in the morning on rice road in quincy when he saw the lightning and he heard it down. he thought the tree was actually falling in front of him. so he decided to put on his brakes. but taking a look right up
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top of his car. he actually had to crawl out the passenger's window. thankfully he's okay, his suv not so much. but this is what he had to say me earlier on. >> reporter: when this happened, obviously, i'm sure, it's kind of surreal, it's shocking. >>yeah. >> reporter: when you saw it, did it even register in your mind. >> when it comes to the windshield, because i mean, it was like that quick. you didn't have a whole lot of time to think or anything. i just slammed on the brakes and just stopped right there. >> reporter: just unbelievable. he did tell me, that you saw a very bright lightning strike when this all happened. he's not sure if lightning is what caused this tree branch to fall on top of the suv. but again we've been showing you lightning throughout the area. in arlington, thousands of people without power after the fire department told me a lightning struck a transformer causing that power outage.
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okay. but he was telling me, that he just made the last car payment on friday. and now he has to deal with this. so, again, you know, not so great news for people. thankfully we haven't heard of any reports of injury, just a lot of clean up. in quincy, stephanie coueignoux, fox 25 news. >> catherine: now is the time to make sure you have the fox 25 weather app. a great way to keep track of severe storms, even if you lose power. our team of meteorologists are constantly updating it with the it is a download. >> jason: yesterday in wisconsin sparked chaos. look at this video overnight. angry crowds took to the streets torching and smashing police cars. and four places set on fire. firefighters held off battling until safe to fight that fire.
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right now the state is investigating the police involved shooting that started the whole thing. closer to home an investigation underway at possible shots fired at emergency responders. in match yesterday morning. e.m.t.s treating someone who was passed out when they say shots fired right over their head. >> expedite and get out of there as fast as you can. >> first responders say it sounded like shots fired right over their heads. to investigate. police do believe shots were fired. no one was hurt. >> catherine: in that same city, a robbery managed to turn the tables on attackers. stabbing them with their own knife. vine street in manchester just before 1:00 a.m. the victims with lured to the area by two men he knew. the victim fought back, grabbed the attackers knife and stand the then.
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this morning and both are being charged for the attack. >> jason: traumatic injuries to a woman's leg after being hit by a boat propeller in stage harbor. they were called out to rescue yesterday afternoon and police say the 27-year-old was swimming in the channel's nantucket sound at the time of the accident. and that accident remains under investigation. >> catherine: just one week left in the summer games and michael phelps is ending his career on a high note. the u.s.a. home gold in the 400 in ed lee relay yesterday. 25th gold medal overall and the fifth of the olympics. >> jason: the united states is still leading the pack with 60 medals overall. 24 of them gold. china is up next with 41 medals total and great britain rounds out the top three with 30. >> catherine: shoppers across the state are earning month the loss of their annual tax-free
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>> catherine: developing this morning, we learned a man attacked on a train in switzerland has died. the attacker is accused of attacking people and starting a fire on a train. the victim who died was a 37-year-old woman. the motive for that attack is under investigation. new york city police are using surveillance video to track down a man who shot and killed two muslim men, one of them a religious leader happened yesterday as the mom aand assistant were leaving a mosque in queens.
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both wearing religious clothing at the time. no sign so far their faith played a role in the attack. surveillance video captured the killer leaving the scene with the gun in his hand. >> jason: intense rain and flooding plummeting the louisiana area. cameras were rolling as a woman was pulled from a car with only to spare. kerry kavanaugh has a look at the heart wrefrming rescue. >> do you have something? >> reporter: a red mazda sinking nose first into the waters in backgrounding. with mere seconds before the car sinks under. three men jump into action all while a news camera rolls. >> break the window. >> reporter: the woman inside trapped with her dog. she had no way to get out. reality setting in. >> i'm going to die. i'm drowning. >> we're coming. we're coming. i'm going to break this window.
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>> reporter: the dire situation gets worse as water continues to poor into the cabin. one man sees the danger and jumps in. >> i'm -- >> reporter: then seconds later, then an arm and a head and she's out -- [ lost audio ] >> i got you. >> oh. oh. >> catherine: that is unbelievable. >> jason: that is amazing. i watched it four or five times
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>> catherine: quick ending of daylight saving time in massachusetts. not everyone is on board. the reason some argue it could be dangerous to deal with it. >> the local woman, looking to
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>> jason brewer: welcome back. dangerous heat today. an excessive heat warning for much of southern new england. let's go down to cape cod where you usually get a little relief, but today, around mashpee, sabld witch, 100 degrees. around falmouth feeling like 90 degrees. back with more on the storm timing today coming up. >> jason: happening right now a hospital in fall river being forced to turn away "the globe" reporting that a power outage caused the airway system to fail. the hospital is still accepting walk ins at its emergency department and hope to be back up and running sometime later this afternoon >>correct right now a massachusetts woman looking to solve the 25 year mystery surrounding her birth. she was abandoned in a hospital bathroom at a few days old. she's hoping to hunt down the woman who gave her up by using facebook. >> reporter: she knows it's a
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>> i was litry shaking when i typed the post. >> reporter: she posted this message when to her facebook page asking her birth mother to message her back. >> i know nothing. of i know no name, never seen a picture, don't know my father. >> reporter: her story began on june 20th, 1991, when she was found abandoned in a bathroom at baystate medical center in springfield, wrapped in a blanket with a bottle of milk. her >> personally don't think she did anything wrong. back in 1991, there was no safe haven laws. >> reporter: no charges filed against kathleen's teenage mother. she was adopted at three month's old by the call family. she grew up in the small town of monday ton by her brother and sister, her family a loving one. but when she became a mom? >> that was the first time you rolled over, ha? >> reporter: she wanted to know
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five-month-old. she want her birth mother to know about her grandkids too. >> i would hope she wouldn't go a day without thinking about the baby that she gave away. >>correct good luck to her. in waltham, one stop on a nationwide tour. look at this picture, this is the vietnam memorial moving wall. it's a half size replica of the actual memorial in more than $58,000 names listed on that wall. the memorial will be at gore place in waltham tomorrow. >> this is a fox 25 storm tracker weather alert. >> jason brewer: all right. welcome back. i'm just taking a look at the radar. and the storms rolling through in the overnight hours as warm humid air made its way back into southern new england after a brief respite from all of the heat yesterday.
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it back into full force. bigger storms coming in with wind damage. these icons are the wind damage reports mainly in worcester county but also the one in quincy where we just heard from stephanie coueignoux as well. look at the beneficial rain, though, outside of the flooding that we have seen in spots. webster, shirley, leominster, all about 2.5, 3 inches of rain. natick and hopkinton checking in about the at about 1 inch of rain. much needed. and we're going to have another this afternoon. temperatures right now, muggy, middle 70s southwest breeze coming upbringing in the heat and humidity and in 70s everywhere you go. dew points are high area wide. no more relief from that. in the lower middle 70s. that's why it feels oppressive that's why a heat advisory is issued and even a heat excessive warning issued here in interior plymouth county over into bristol conely these are the spots that we could have heat
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around 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. this afternoon. check out these temperatures in the middle 90s. remember on friday, boston officially hit 98 degrees. it's going to be close to that today with the off shore wind flow. lowell, beverly, all mid 90s. rockport middle 90s. upper 80s to near 90, the cape and islands. nantucket a little bit of relief there at 80 for you. brockton and degrees today and that heat index up around 105 to 107 interior plymouth county that's the most dangerous spot. here's 10:00 a.m. feels like temperatures lower 90s. already feeling hot. let's go to 2:00 or 3:00, heat index readings in excess of 100 degrees. most of the area. then we go to 7:00 p.m. still feels hot, steamy. a couple of storms out there that have cooled some of us off.
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not expect to return. seven-day forecast looks a little better. here comes the front of this front getting closer to us. hour by hour throughout the afternoon. start to see showers and storms bubbling up. i think first in southwest new hampshire and western mass. look here, future cast does show a healthy cluster of storms in this area. and then coming across on into the late day. so by 3:00 or 4:00, we'll have to watch 495 over toward boston for that threat of storms to start building and everything pushes off shore on into 9:00 and 10:00 tonight. then we take a turn to the drive. monday, upper 80s, tuesday, another shot at some rain already moving in. late tuesday into early wednesday. then we clear out for the latter part of the week. looking ahead to next weekend, finally some good news, how about lower 80s, not too humid, plenty of sunshine, much more coming up.
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>> reporter: hi everybody, i'm butch stearns, approaching mid august. in the race pennant race. every game crucial. rick porcello as the sox try to sweep arizona out of fenway. last night clay buchholz getting the first start since july 2nd. he pitched it pretty well. in the fifth, sandy leon, 3-2. sox trail by one. couple later, mookie betts, with the go ahead run. ben necessity at the time tee tied the game ep. brad zeigler struck put in the 8th. sox win it 6-3. is john papelbon coming back to boston? david says pap is worth looking
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welcome a return to boston for the rest of the season but weighing all of his options. day two of the isaiah thomas basketball clinic, worldwide by isaiah, having a lot of fun with the campers not only because he loves it but also because he's not much bigger than most of them. hear him talk about kevin durant. the off season and more. tonight at on sports wrap. join tom leydon, weei talk about patriots issues 11:30 tonight. have a good sunday, everyone. >> jason: another dangerously hot day ahead. >> catherine: many more people waking up to scenes like this one. fox 25 stephanie coueignoux taking us on a tour of some of the worse damage this morning. >> jason brewer: double whammy indeed. extreme heat back with us for
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coverage starts right now. this is fox 25 morning news. >> jason: i don't know what's more impressive, seeing that or hearing it. amazing video coming out from a viewer in fitchburg. lightning lighting up the sky. people saw and heard things similar to that lighting up the sky. good morning, jason law. >> . >> catherine: i'm catherine parrotta. first, jason brewer is tracking dangerously high temps. >> jason brewer: strong winds and heavy rain a possibility this afternoon but let's start with the heat alert. this really starts admit day through the early evening up to 107 is what it's going to feel like in interior plymouth county. hee those heat advisories even
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hampshire. we're in the middle 90s at 3:00. feeling like 102. at 7:00, we're still in the upper 80s. a couple of cooling storms i'm going to watch here over the northern western parts of our area by 2:00 for storms to start up. by 4:00 p.m., start to make their way close attorney boston through worcester county as well. by 7:00, hit or miss, could still have a couple of strong storms out there into the stun set areas. then when you say sarah tonight, everything is moving off shore. this sunday coming up. >> catherine: all right. right now, more than 200,000 people in the dark in massachusetts. and in new hampshire, they were also hit hard by the overnight storms. this is a picture out of salem new hampshire, you can see there this was a house hit by lightning. and you can see the damage in that photo. fortunately, month one was hurt. but with dangerously high temperatures today and the threat of severe storms later this afternoon. no you is the time to download the fox 25 weather app. you can track the temperatures where you are and where you're
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also you can get live radar as storms start popping up. free for apple and android devices. and last night's storms knocked out power to thousands of people. >> jason: that's right. fox 25 stephanie coueignoux is live in quincy where several big trees knocked over by the storms, stephanie. >> reporter: yeah, an one of those trees actually fell or at least a tree limb fell on this suv. we've actually been showing you the other end of this area because you could better see where it fell. but i do w a look at this, you can see the windshield cracked right here. the drivers door also damaged. the man who was in that seat was driving down rice road in quincy at 2:45 in the morning when this enormous branch came crashing down on him. he told me he thought the tree was going to go right through his window. amazingly enough, he was okay, he had to crawl outside of the passenger's door. again, this is one of several
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i also want to show you this video on colonial drive. on adam street. that's the intersection. you can see how massive that tree branch is, blocking the entire intersection right there. crews using chain saws to break down that enormous branch and sort through it. now earlier i spoke with one resident who says he was up when the storm went through. he told me the lightning was so like the sun was out. >> you could read a book by the light of the lightning. no question about it. >> reporter: and it lasted what about an hour? >> at least. at least, i stayed out on the front porch just to watch it. again i should've had the newspaper out there. i would've been able to read the newspaper. >> reporter: we're talking about heavy lightning in the area. the driver actually spoke with minimum because he went back to check out his car right here. he told me there was lightning
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down when the tree limb came crashing down on him. he's not sure if the lightning was responsible or the wind. coming up in 30 minutes, as he described the terrible scenario moments after the tree came crashing down. in quincy stephanie coueignoux fox 25 news. >> jason: we continue to follow breaking news this morning. chaos in wisconsin in the aftermath of a deadly police shooting there. we have brand new video just into our newsroom giving us a look at the aftermath of the a gas station in ruins, just one of multiple businesses set on fire. protesters also torched one police car and smashed up another. you can see it in the video. very early this morning, milwaukee's mayor spoke to parents imploring them to get their kids in line. >> a mother who is watching this right now and your young son or daughter is not home and you think they're in this area, get them home right now.
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at least three people have been arrested. all of this coming after a 23-year-old man armed with a gun was shot and killed by police. investigators say the man did not obey orders to drop the weapon before he was shot. the incident being investigated by the state. you're looking at new video from the aftermath this morning. also breaking this morning, a manhunt in georgia after a police officer was shot and killed outside of macon. he was shot to death last night after a responding to a call of a suspicious personro the suspect not identified and still at large this morning. >> catherine: this morning, a woman is in critical condition after being hit by a car in south boston. the woman in her 20s is in a crosswalk on william j boulevard last night. she was rushed to boston medical center with life-threatening injuries. the driver was stopped at the scene and no word on whether he's facing any charges this morning.
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call around 7:30 this morning. found people in the water in the sinking boat between castle island and thompson island in dorchester bay. this shows them being tened to by e.m.s. after being pulled out of the water. we don't know what caused the boat to sink. that's still under investigation. >> catherine: this video only on fox 25 this morning, smoke from a tour boat billowing into the air with a deck pull of people on the boston har boerne. after with several hours. the vessel experienced unexpected control failure while docking at long wharf. engineers later found a malfunction in one of the engines, causing the captain to lose control. no one on board was injured but the regency did have broken windows. >> thank god nobody was hurt but these are things that are still concerning. whether safe to drive a boat or
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struck will be back in service pending approval. >> jason: a man died after drowning in a pool at bridgewater apartment complex. rescuers trying to save him. already performing cpr by the time e.m.s. showed up. at access apartment 6:00 last night. the man taken to the hospital but passed away three hours later. this is a picture from the brockton enterprise showing the pool area closed off after that i believe. so far police haven't said if this is a drowning or some other kind of medic >> catherine: tonight, the city of princeton will come together at the town gazebo with a 3 mile run to honor vanessa marcotte. she was murdered during a jog a week ago today. the run comes as funeral plans are set for the 27-year-old. meantime investigators are combing through nearly 600 tips to find her killer. >> reporter: 27-year-old vanessa marcotte will be laid to rest in westminster tuesday. it's been a week since the woman visiting family in princeton
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between 1:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon. on brooks station road, that's when marcotte was last seen jogging sunday afternoon. on friday, we saw the area where police found her body less than a mile from her mother's home. we learned from police marcotte fought her killer and they're looking for anyone with cuts, scratches, bruises or injuries simspectacular to a struggle. after the wachusett showed up in the afternoon. and the man had bruises on his body. that couple was involved in an accident that day and they refused treatment. police chief says this has nothing to do with marcotte's murder. the d.a. wouldn't comment. >> catherine: they're asking for the public's helpful they set up a tip for anyone with information about vanessa's
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>> jason: a man in custody accused of being under the influence. after midnight on route 6. officers conducting a sobriety test on another driver when they say 33-year-old juan fontanez hit the cruisers. his car rolled, blocking both lanes for a time. he and his passenger taken to the hospital for injuries. no one else was hurt. >> i'll tell you honestly, i'm hillary. i'm running against the xrookd media. >> jason: donald trump confusing top republicans this weekend by choosing to make a campaign stop in connecticut last night. that state hasn't gone for a republican president since george h.w. bush back in 1988. here's the reason why gop brass has cause for concern.
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trump trails hillary clinton in iowa, ohio, and pennsylvania. this weekend, twitter has suspended the accounts of the hacker who claimed responsibility for the latest d.n.c. e-mail leak. the online persona known only as guccifer 2.0 is claiming for the hack. nancy pelosi is one of those democrats who had her private cell phone number and e-mail leashed. she obscene and sick messages. urged colleagues not to let their kids near their phone and already working to change her phone number. >> catherine: we aren't the only ones getting rain. some dealing with major flooding right now. >> oh my god, i'm drowning. >> we're coming. we're coming. >> catherine: a car fills with water and flips under the surface. >> jason: shoppers around the state are missing their annual tax-free weekend.
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stores are still giving customers a break. >> jason brewer: heat index 91. hyannis 86 is what it feels like. and boston, it only gets worse
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>> jason brewer: heat advisories up today. in plymouth county, the excessive heat warning is posted. that's for heat index up 105 or better. brockton approaching toward stoughton watch out 3:00 that's the your feels like forecast. also some storms to get through. more on those straight ahead. >> jason: with sales tax revenue down this year, massachusetts lawmakers decided to eliminate the annual sales tax holiday. and with back to school shopping right around the corner a lot of people say that's blocking them from gotten used to. many local retailers finding new inventive ways to attract customers. >> reporter: relied on the sales tax holiday to unload most expensive items like this snowblower that go close to 1,000 bucks. but this year spend determining on sales prices and a special rewards program to draw people in. >> this is probably one of our best sales. it's been -- >> reporter: miranda's hardware store in west roxbury is the
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he says the failure of a tax holiday will cost him thousands. this year it's not going to be so great in august. >> reporter: other companies offering their own tax-free jordans furniture and jim says they're taking care of the tax on all of their work out equipment. own of consumer world.org. >> the notion of kind sticking it to the state maybe gets most people. most furniture stores in massachusetts are advertising they're going to save you 6:25% or double the sales tax. >> reporter: the sales tax holiday cost the state 25 to $30,000 in annual revenue. governor baker says this year, it didn't make any sense. >> i'm pleased to see a lot on the retail side coming up with variety and ways of enticing shoppers into their store.
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can't afford to slash prices any more than he already has. >> i my 6.52 isn't a lot. but for some reason, a lot of people find it as a reason to come in and spend it locally. >> jason: consumer experts believe another side effect is that shoppers will head north to new hampshire to make big purchases. >> catherine: the mbta a step away to make a app user friendly for commuters. they p looks like. the public had a way to weigh in. league began airport, helping you avoid long lines when going through custom. the new app, you take a photo of your passport and yourself. you land in the u.s., you grab your app and wave your phone over a scanner and step right
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local officials say the app should be made available by the end of the month. >> this is a storm tracker weather alert. >> jason brewer: all right, everybody. we're watching for the threat of heat today. i want to show you yesterday's highs. i hope you liked them. upper 70s and lower 80s in many spots. but for today, a different story. we're going to see mid to upper 90s just about area wide. right now 81 and look at the wind out of the southwest. that's the telltale right there. the wind flow will before ink in the heat and moisture today. temperatures in the lower 80s most spots. a couple of err upper 70s mixed into the north and west. temperatures on the dew point scale are not in the dry zone anywhere you go. entrenched in a warm and humid air mass all across southern new england today. there are the heat alerts. we do have an excessive heat warning in plymouth county, back
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that's where the heat index could reach 107. along the coastline, a little relief but not much. still, heat index readings on cape cod near 100. get up north and west into the higher terrains to see a little bit of relief as the humidity there will be slightly warmer. threat of showers and storms coming in to cool some of us down first off in worcester county. around 2:00, 3:00, watching the skies there. and then 4:00, to 5:00, p.m., watch the skies around the 495 plymouth county. showers and storms coming in from the west. keepen an eye on the west stern skies. temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. even near 90 degrees. nantucket looks to once again be the lowest spot today. 10:00 a.m., feels like the low 90s in a lot of locations already. and only going up from there. there's 2:00, 3:00 p.m. triple digit, heat index readings oppressive humidity. just keep it indoors don't be working outside unless you
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clothing, drink a lot of water, if you're doing to fenway today, going to be ultra hot out there. definitely want to seek the shade and try to avoid those wide brim hats and keep the sunscreen on. a good deal of that today. appeared then showers and storms will be a problem as we head into mid to late afternoon i'm going to first watch up to the north and west around 1:00 to 2:00. places like keene will have a threat for some storms and then as you go to:0 making its way toward the boston area, that potential start to go rise into the late day. some of these could last up until sunset before finally pushing off shore. when you see sarah around 10:00, 11:00 at night. seven-day forecast. for tomorrow, dryer weather and a little less humidity. still warm and kind of humid but at least not as oppressive. tuesday more rain on the way which is a good thing, without the threat for a lot of severe weather with that event as we
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thursday, friday, saturday, taking a turn toward the dryer and more comfortable. temperatures are coming down into the 80s for the up coming week. get through today, the worse of it, monitoring that potential for more damaging wind and flooding concerns later this afternoon. >> jason: a woman and two men now facing drug charges this weekend after a heroin bust in chelsea. police say they got several tips that led them to poplar street friday. bags of what they believe is hear. two of three people is being held this morning on $25,000 bail. >> catherine: look at this picture from beverly and salem police department, they worked to together to take down a drug operation in their community. that picture shows heroin, crack cocaine and a large amount of cash. they followed two salem men as they made drug deals in both towns. they're now facing charges. >> jason: penalty gone employees
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threats. they say the game could be used to pinpoint locations of security facilities. penalty gone concerned it could be used in spying recruitment attempts or to access secrets. a push for a major change to how massachusetts tells time. some people looking for the tate to put an end to daytime savings time for good. the reason other say that's not a great idea. >> catherine: the unusual
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>> jason: closer to home, talking about the severe today. severe thunderstorms last night that people are picking up after. this video west part of the country portland oregon, it's a fire tornado. it was taken near portland oregon and it happens when wild fire can create its own wind and it can spin into a vortex of flames that you have here. not often you have video of it. here you go. there's your fire nadeau. >> catherine: it look like something out of hollywood. >> jason: pretty incredible. >> >> catherine: i'm pretty
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monkey, from its passengers, what about this? a man brought a service among key on to a plane and caused a stir. surveillance video shows the man being screened with the monkey. frontier airlines says no one gave them the head's up about this. the monkey was properly behaved and showed the proper documentation. >> jason: cute little monkey. >> jose castilel record by building a 90 feet long. nearly 300 foot monscross city took 760 pounds of dried tobacco leaves to make. he worked for ten days on that cigar. with five assistants. he dedicated the record cigar to fidel castro on friday. fidel castro famous for smoking cigars. >> catherine: that's huge.
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would take. >> jason: very cool, though. jason, not cool today? >> jason brewer: oh, man. well said, jason. this is tough out there. in fact, watching the satellite picture, right now the clouds are thinning out. that only means temperatures rising rapidly. right now heat index readings already into the 80s in many spots. much more on the heat and our chance for storms straight ahead. >> reporter: it was a very close call for one driver as strong storms pushed through the area. coming up, a live report introducing dunkin's new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultra-smooth, full-bodied flavor. discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on.
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there. the temps. >> jason: it is already warming up at 9:30. let's get over to jason brewer. where it's going to feel a lot hotter a lot later today. >> jason brewer: already heating up the weather ticker at the bottom of your screen, the noontime temperatures already around 90 degrees. extreme heat a big risk for that today. strong wind and heavy rain also a big concern mid to late afternoon. so let me show you, first off, where the heat advisories are. they're coming in here across the sea coast parts of new hampshire and right through boston and extreme excessive heat warning in affect for bristol county, plymouth county. heat index readings up near 107 degrees. even cape cod and the vineyard under a heat advisory for today for heat index readings around 100. so take care out there. let me show you real quickly right now the forecast for heat index readings 100 at noon. 3:00, 102. 7:00, some relief. even for some cooling storms. and a closer looking at future cast, show you the timing of
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>> catherine: right now, just over 1800 people across the state are without power from the latest storm. fox 25 stephanie coueignoux is hive in quincy this morning where she found quite a bit of damage, stephanie. >> reporter: in the last five minutes, you can see behind me the crew with the park department with the city of quincy showed up to remove the tree right behind us, this truck right here. as we've been showing you all morning long. there is an tree branch and haven't been able to remove that sue until removing this branch. coming up, you can see that is split right up there on top. earlier i had a chance to speak the driver of this suv. he says he was going down this road at 2:45 in the morning when all of a sudden, he heard it down. and it happened really quickly. couldn't do much but put on his brakes. but take a listen to what he had to.
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when you saw it did it even register in your mind. >> i actually thought the branch was going to come through the windshield. it was like that quick you didn't have a whole lot of time to think or anything. i just slammed on the brakes and then just stopped. just stopped right there. >> reporter: unreal. now, thankfully as you saw in that video, that man is okay. this is on rice road. the crew came from another scene on adams street that we told you. about the same time the tree branch fell he saw a lightning strike. he's not sure if that's what caused the branch to fall. as we've been reporting all morning long, there are several lightning strikes that have done damage. this is video from arlington earlier this morning where we were, and the fire department telling us that a lightning strike hit a transformer there causing thousands of people to be without power. no matter where you are. clean up is underway. as for the driver of this suv, he's actually from rhode island.
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rhode island until they remove all of this damage. he told me, even though he's okay, his car, not so much. and unfortunately, he says he just made his very last car payment on friday. so there you go. the long road ahead for him and for many people here in this area. stephanie coueignoux fox 25 news. >> catherine: bad timing there. now is the time to make sure you have the fox 25 weather app. it's a great way to keep track of the weather even if you lose power. our team constantly updating and it is a free download. >> jason: we continue to monitor news out of wisconsin. a man shot and killed by police yesterday sparked a night full of chaos in milwaukee. look at the scene overnight. angry crowds took to the streets smashing and torching police cars. we noel at least four businesses, including a gas station were set on fire. shots rang out in the area, forcing firefighters battling the fire to hold off until it was safe to do so.
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arrested in connection to the uncivil rest. closer to home an investigation underway, into shots possibly being fired in response to emergency responders. e.m. thes were treating someone who was passed out when they say they heard gunshots. >> expedite your transport and get right out of there as fast as you could. >> jason: they say it sounded like the shots shot right over their heads. they brought in a canine team evidence. despite that they do believe shots were fired. no one was hurt. >> catherine: in the same state a be robber managed to turn the takes on a set of attackers in a parking garage on vine street in new hampshire just before 1:00 a.m. he was lured into the area by two men he knew. the victim fought back, grabbed the attacker's knife and stand the men. this evbeen identified at 37-year-old james dixon and
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charges for the attack. >> jason: a woman hospitalized with traumatic injuries to her leg after being hit by a boat propeller in stage harbor. first responders were called out to rescue her why ed afternoon of the 27-year-old woman was swimming in the channel to nantucket sound at the time. the incident still under investigation >>correct just one week left in the summer gapes and michael phelps is leaving his career on a hig meter med lee relay yesterday. this marks his five fifth in the olympics and 27th overall. becoming the first man to win three consecutive gold medals. the fastest man in the world madet 2016 summer games debut yesterday. he came in first in round one of the men's 100 with a time of 10.07 seconds.
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toernt. >> jason: the medal county so far, united states leading 60, with 24 of them gold. great britain wraps up the top three with 30 total. >> catherine: a woman flipped from her car, concern as rescuers try to pull her safety. >> jason: a train attack. investigators work to figure out a.m., temperatures already
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four hundred million dollars. that's how much charter schools will drain from massachusetts public schools this year. four hundred million siphoned from local districts
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and technology, arts or preschool, counseling, or smaller class sizes. four hundred million unavailable to the ninety-six percent of students who don't attend charter schools. let's improve public schools for all students, not just a select few. vote no on question 2. >> catherine: developing this morning, we just learned the man who attacked several people on a train in switzerland has just died. we reported two hours ago, another victim also died. three more people remain in critical condition and right now the motive for the attack remains under investigation.
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intense rain and flooding pummelling that area. on saturday, a television crew cameras were rolling as a woman was pulled from the car with only moments to spare. fox 25 kerry kavanaugh looks at the heart-wrenching rescue. >> do you have something? >> yeah. >> reporter: a red mazda sinking nose first into the sinking water near baton rouge. >> give me a knife. >> reporter: with mere seconds, the car slips under. three men jump into action, all >> break your window. >> reporter: the woman inside, trapped with her dog. she had no way to get out. realty setting in. >> i'm drowning. >> we're coming. we're coming. >> i'm going to break this window. >> we're breaking the window. >> reporter: the dire situation gets worse as water continues to poor into the cabin. one man sees the danger and
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then seconds later, an arm and then a head and she's out. and the cargo is completely under. >> get my dog. >> your dog. >> get my dog. get my dog now. >> i'm going down. >> hang on. >> i couldn't get the dog. here, here. >> oh. >> i can't get the dog. >> jack is his name. >> thank you, god. >> i got the dog. >> oh. >> oh. >> reporter: that is unbelievable. we've been seeing that through the morning and it's just incredible. >> jason: it never becomes less compelling. incredible to not only get the woman in serious trouble but the dog too. >> jason: we continue to follow two more problems today. waking up to damage overnight
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>> jason: plus a approximate rush to end daylight saves time in massachusetts. not everyone is on board. in massachusetts. not everyone is on board. the reason it could be we could brag about what's in new light & fit yogurt. 'd rather talk about what's not in it. like no artificial colors or preservative ingredients. and with 70 calories... maybe we're kind of bragging?
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man: we gave him the option -- "do you want to do a big party with your friends, or would you rather do something with us as a big family?" and so he chose for all of us to get together, actually go down to great wolf lodge, and have a family birthday. woman: and that's the family i wanted to give luke of siblings, people who love him all around him at all times, and lots of support.
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temperature at 3:00. i i've been zooming in neighborhood by neighborhood. go into waltham. 100 degrees what it's feeling like here today. watch out. be careful. take it easy, stay inside the a.c. if you have to be outside, a lot of breaks a lot of water. tracking a strong to severe threat as well straight ahead. >> catherine: the clock is ticking on a controversial idea to move massachusetts into a new time zone. the move would have us leaving the eastern standard behind and no nor daylight savings time and no more turning back the clocks or move them forward. our sharman sacchetti has a look at putting massachusetts and possibly all of new england on one time all of the time. >> reporter: spring forward, fall back, what if you didn't have to worry about changing the clocks twice a year ever again? >> i love the later daylight in the summer. >> reporter: so public health advocates tom pitched the idea of moving to atlantic standard time to a state senator john keenan. keenan submitted it on his behalf.
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they seem to enjoy it in the spring even though it takes time to get acclimated. >> the public health lit rawture indicates when we spring forward in march, we have more car accidents, more heart attacks and more sdementsdz at work because we're giving millions of people jet lag at the same time. >> reporter: he set up a commission to at least set up the idea is now law signed by the governor as part of theic which development bill. >> this was particularly important, it's important at the time there be a legislative commit interest in doing that, we signed that. but my view is the current structure we have is fine. >> reporter: but governor baker isn't exactly in love with the idea. >> i special certainly worry if we head too far down the road we could end up creating a lot of problems for ourselves with respect to all sorts of issues around work schedules, commuting schedules and a whole bunch of other things. >> children get confused. i have grandchildren.
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patterns going the right way again. >> i think it's a before idea. yeah. >> i think it's not going to be a great idea. >> he would like to get all of new england on board but this is the first time. >> i think we're so far east in the eastern standard time zone we actually belong in the atlantic time zone. >> reporter: a report is due out in march of 201. while it does need the governor's approval. final say rests with the u.s. department of transportation. in fox 25 news. this is a fox 25 weather alert. >> jason brewer: good morning, so much to keep track of on this sunday. if you're just waking up with us, you missed out on a lot of the humidity so are fa. i want to show you yesterday's temperatures. i hope you liked them. they were in the upper 70s and lower 80s. today the heat is coming back in a big way and a threat for a few more strong to severe storms. most of the storm damage occurred in worcester county yesterday with flooding and wind.
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stephanie coueignoux live out on those. three cars stuck in mechanic street from leominster late last night. sarah wroblewski was out there tracking those storms. it's 81 now under fair skies a few high clouds. look at the viewpoint. hi out of the south he's with. 14 miles an hour. it's going to continue to funnel in the air all day today. and temperatures right now are in the lower 80s in many spots. and it's already feeling like the mid 80s to near it's not even 10:00 in the morning yet. so you see the heat alert of this is a heat advisory in the orange shade. an excessive heat, with a. that's in plymouth and bristol county. for heat index readings of 107. up around 105 or better and the weather service hits that excessive heat warning warning. to drive home the point. to keep it indoors and enjoy the a.c. if you can. look at the temperatures today. remember friday as you hit 98 in boston.
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mitt and upper 90s possible even down into plymouth county. will see lower numbers from doctor the cape and islands. but still going to feel like near 100, especially near western parts of the cape. even on the vineyard, approaching 100 today. let's track the feels like temperature. this is noon time, already the triple digit spots out there. and as we go to 3:00 p.m. 103 to 106. this is model forecast doing a good job of showing you where the worse of that heat is eastern mass. into plymouth county. still warm and hume. some of us get heavy cooling storms to cut into that heat and a lot of clouds today. here's why. more wind in the atmosphere and approaching heat today. that does two things promote the risk for strong damaging winds but also storms move along more quickly. if i have to pick, wind threat is bigger than the flood threat today. keep in mind, this easy will be
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fire up. here's 2:00. it does a good job showing you the scattered storms. starting first in southwest new hampshire. making way north shore by 5:00 p.m. and few on the south shore hanging around until about 1k7 or 8:00 tonight. if you're headed to to fenway today, hot, humid, wear the light colored clothing be careful out there. and late into the game and into the evening, watch out for the storms making their way tomorrow. not as humid. more rain on tuesday in the afternoon. and then nice weather late in the week. >> jason: new this morning, a half dozen people pulled from a sinking boat in boston harbor. the details we know this morning. >> catherine: the sox again these looking to close out the series with a epinto.
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. hi everybody, i'm butch stearns, here's your sports first, approaching mid august, sox in the middle of a pennant race and every game is crucial. rick porcello as the sox try to
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last night, clay buchholz first start since july 2nd. he pitched it pretty well. kept the sox in the game and they battle back. in the fifth sandy leon solo hit off archie bradley. 3-2 sox trail by 1. mookie beats with the go ahead run. ben necessity at the time tee tied the game. brad zeigler struck out the side with the bases load in the 8th. the sox win it 6-3. other news, is jonathan papelbon released by washington yesterday. dave says pap is worth looking into. reporting that papelbon will welcome a return to botch for the rest of the season but weighing all of his openings. going right now at reading high school, day two of the isaiah thomas basketball clinic in. isaiah having a lot of fun with they said players, not only because he loves it but also because he's not much bigger
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celtics off season and more. tonight's sports wrap, tom leydon, weei.com christopher price talking about patriots issues. that's tonight sunday night sports wrap. have a good sunday everybody. >> jason: people are rescued by zipping boat in the boston harbor between castle and thompson avenue. the sinking remains under investigation this morning. >> cat that storms rolling through the area overnight. amazing videos out of fitchburg. jason we know we have a bah. potentially dangerous weather this afternoon. >> jason brewer: a lot of heat wave. a lot of wind had the atmosphere. the ingredients for scattered to strong to severe storms. mid 90s, heat index 105 today. and then tomorrow, a little bit better. less humid, upper 80s and more rain. >> jason: we saw these temps thursday and friday.
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>> catherine: hot. >> jason brewer: be careful. >> catherine: watch the fox 25 news at 6:00.
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